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EARTHLY
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Irregular inflected forms: earthlier , earthliest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven
Example:
our earthly home
Classified under:
Similar:
earthborn (connected with earthly life; of earthly origin)
earthbound (confined to the earth)
earthlike (resembling or characteristic of earth)
mundane; terrene (belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly)
sublunar; sublunary; terrestrial (of this earth)
temporal (of this earth or world)
Also:
mortal (subject to death)
profane; secular (not concerned with or devoted to religion)
secular; temporal; worldly (characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world)
Antonym:
heavenly (of or belonging to heaven or god)
Derivation:
earth (the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell))
Context examples:
Half an hour from now, when I shall again and forever reindue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fearstruck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"I am deeper in death at this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heaven-sent dreams and divine possibilities.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I said I wouldn't leave England, under existing circumstances, for any earthly consideration.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If I have turned to serve an earthly master, and to carry arms for an earthly king, it would be an ill thing if I were to lose all thought of the great high King and Master of all, whose humble and unworthy servant I was ere ever I left Beaulieu.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Laurie bit his lips, and turning a little from the pensive speaker, read the following document, with praiseworthy gravity, considering the spelling: I, Amy Curtis March, being in my sane mind, go give and bequeethe all my earthly property—viz. to wit:—namely
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He is confined within the limitations of his earthly envelope.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He has maintained a regular, though not frequent, correspondence ever since: he hopes I am happy, and trusts I am not of those who live without God in the world, and only mind earthly things.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
